PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
*graduate student; **undergraduate student
BOOK
BOOK CHAPTERS
UNDER REVIEW
WORKING PAPERS - Draft Available
WORKING PAPERS - Data Collected & Drafting in Progress
GOVERNMENT REPORTS
RESEARCH GRANTS
Funded:
SELECT MEDIA COVERAGE
Interviews:
Web-Based Publications:
My Work Featured In:
*graduate student; **undergraduate student
- *Betus, A., Kearns, E.M. & Lemieux, A. "How Perpetrator Identity (Sometimes) Influences Media Framing Attacks as 'Terrorism' or 'Mental Illness.'" Online first, Communication Research
- Ghazi-Tehrani, A. & Kearns, E.M. (2020). "Biased Coverage of Bias Crime: Examining Differences in Media Coverage of Hate Crimes and Terrorism." Online first, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.
- Lowrey-Kinberg, B., *Mellinger, H. & Kearns, E.M. (2020). "How Social Dominance Orientation Shapes Perceptions of Police." Online first, Policing: An International Journal.
- Delehanty, C. & Kearns, E.M. (2020). "Wait, There's Torture in Zootopia?: Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies," Perspectives on Politics, 18(3): 835-850. [replication materials].
- **Shupard, M. & Kearns, E.M. (2019). "Why Do Officers Support Community Policing?: A Cross-Departmental Comparison and Cross-Temporal Comparison." Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 37: 665-680.
- Kearns, E.M., **Ashooh, E. & Lowrey-Kinberg, B. (2019). "Racial Differences in Conceptualizing Legitimacy and Trust in Police." American Journal of Criminal Justice, 45: 190-214.
- Dolliver, M. & Kearns, E.M. (2019). "Is it Terrorism: Public Perceptions, Media, and Labeling the Las Vegas Shooting." Online first, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.
- Kearns, E.M. (2019). "Claims and Attributions: Why Take Credit for Terrorism?" Online first, Terrorism and Political Violence. *Winner of the 2016 American Society of Criminology's Division of International Criminology Outstanding Student Paper Award *Winner of the 2015 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) Symposium Best Student Paper Award
- Kearns, E.M., *Betus, A. & Lemieux, A. (2019). "Why Do Some Terrorist Attacks Receive More Media Attention Than Others?" Justice Quarterly, 36(6): 985-1022. [replication materials].
- Kearns, E.M., *Betus, A. & Lemieux, A. (2019). "When Data Don't Matter: Exploring Public Perceptions of Terrorism." Online first, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.
- Kearns, E.M., Asal, V., Walsh, J. Federico, C. & Lemieux, A. (2018). "Political Action as a Function of Political Grievance and Social Identity: An Experimental Approach." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism,43 (11): 941-958.
- Kearns, E.M. (2018). "Exploring Officer Views of Community Policing in Counterterrorism." Police Practice and Research, 21 (1): 18-32.
- Kearns, E.M. & Young, J.K. (2018). "If Torture is Wrong, What about 24?: Torture and the Hollywood Effect." Crime & Delinquency, 64(12): 1568-1589.
- Lemieux, A., Kearns, E.M., Asal, V. & Walsh, J. (2017). "Support for Political Mobilization, Protest, and Terrorism in Egypt and Morocco: An Online Experimental Study." Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 10(2-3):124-142.
- Kearns, E.M. (2017). "Why Are Some Police Officers More Supportive of Community Policing with Minorities than Others?" Justice Quarterly, 34(7): 1213-1245.
- Kearns, E.M. (2015). "The Study of Torture: Why It Persists, Why Perceptions of It are Malleable, and Why It is Difficult to Eradicate." Laws, 5(1): 1-15.
- Kearns, E.M., **Conlon, B.L. & Young, J.K. (2014). "Lying about Terrorism." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 37(5): 422 - 439.
BOOK
- Kearns, E.M. & Young, J.K. (2020). "Tortured Logic: Why Some Americans Support for Torture in Counterterrorism." Forthcoming, Columbia University Press.
BOOK CHAPTERS
- Young, J.K. & Kearns, E.M. (2016). "Empirical Challenges to Studying Terrorism and Homicide," in The Handbook on Homicide, eds. Fiona Brookman, Edward R. Maguire, and Mike Maguire. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Kearns, E.M. & Young, J.K. (2013). "Military Tactics in Civil War," in The Routledge Companion to Civil War Studies, eds. Edward Newman and Karl DeRouen. Rutledge.
UNDER REVIEW
- Kearns, E.M., Federico, C., Asal, V., Walsh, J., Betus, A., Lemieux, A. "Intergroup Images, Grievance, and Support for Protest and Terrorism."
- *Senn, S. & Kearns, E.M. "Officer Support for Community Policing with Racial Minorities Post-Ferguson."
WORKING PAPERS - Draft Available
- Kearns, E.M. "Why Are Some Crimes Reported to Police While Others Aren't?"
- Kearns, E.M. "If You See Something Do You Say Something?: Using Conjoint Experiments to Examine Why People Report Potential Terrorism Activity."
- *Bowman, R. & Kearns, E.M. "Variants in Views of Police Across and Within Races."
- *Sharo, C. & Kearns, E.M. "When to Call the Police?: How Crime Type and Contextual Factors Impact Crime Reporting."
WORKING PAPERS - Data Collected & Drafting in Progress
- Kearns, E.M. "Conceptualizing Legitimacy and Trust in Police Across Racial Group."
- Kearns, E.M. "See Something, Say Something?: Reporting Potential Terrorism Activities to Police."
- Kearns, E.M. "Teaching Statistics: A Quasi-Experimental Comparison of Traditional versus Flipped Classroom Models."
- Kearns, E.M. & Nix, J. "When do Policing Studies Replicate?: A Review of Multi-Agency Studies."
- Kearns, E.M. & *Senn, S. "Changes over Time in Officer Support for Community Policing with Minorities."
- Fisher, D. & Kearns, E.M. "Theorizing Terrorism within Criminological Scholarship."
- Ghazi-Tehrani, A. & Kearns, E.M. "Differentiating Between Terrorism, Hate Crimes, and Other Violence: A Conceptual Approach."
- Betus, A., Kearns, E.M. & Becker, M. "Media and Fear of Terrorism."
GOVERNMENT REPORTS
- 2020. "Terrorism as Communicative and Miscommunicative Violence." In Counterterrorism Yearbook 2020, Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
- 2015. "When to Claim: A Cross-National Study of Claimed versus Unclaimed Terrorist Attacks." National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) Research Brief.
- 2015. "The Role of Law Enforcement in Fighting Terrorism," in Comprehensive Law Enforcement Review, Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS). Consulting researcher and co-author.
- 2015. Presidential Task Force on 21st Century Policing, Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS). Consulting researcher.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Funded:
- Research Grants Committee (RGC) - $3,000, University of Alabama, 2018-2019.
- College Academy for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (CARSCA) - $4,328, University of Alabama, 2018-2019.
- Fellow, Peace & Violence Research Lab - $4,000, American University, 2015-2016.
- Doctoral Research Award - $4,994, American University, 2015-2016.
- Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Terrorism Research Award - $5,000, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, 2014-2015.
- Faculty Research Support Grant (with Joseph K. Young) – $10,000, American University, 2014.
- School of Public Affairs Research Scholars Grant (with Joseph K. Young) – $5,000, American University, 2013.
- Undergraduate Summer Scholars Grant–$2,000, Miami University, 2004
SELECT MEDIA COVERAGE
Interviews:
- Untenured Tracks, (October 8, 2019)
- Police Chief Magazine, (September 2019)
- CBC Radio - Vancouver on the Coast, (August 6, 2019)
- NPR's "All Things Considered," (March 23, 2018)
- "Humanity in the Headlines," (February 24, 2018)
- Colorado Public Radio, (November 9, 2017)
- ABC Australia, "Radio National," (July 6, 2017)
- NPR's "Morning Edition," (June 20, 2017)
- NPR's "Hidden Brain" podcast with Shankar Vedantam, (June 19, 2017)
- "CBS/KCBS San Francisco with Susan Kennedy," (March 19, 2017)
- "CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin," (December 10, 2014)
Web-Based Publications:
- Betus, A., Kearns, E.M & Lemieux, A., "Who's a Terrorist and Who's Mentally Ill? We Look at 10 years of News Coverage to Find Out," Washington Post (August 8, 2019).
- Kearns, E.M. & Amarasingam, A. "How News Media Talk about Terrorism & What the Evidence Shows," Just Security (April 5, 2019)
- Kearns, E.M. "An Expert on Political Violence Explains why the NRA's Ads Matter," The Trace (August 8, 2017)
- Kearns, E.M., Betus, A. & Lemieux, A., "Yes, the Media Do Underreport Some Terrorist Attacks, Just Not the Ones Most People Think of," Washington Post (March 13, 2017)
- Kearns, E.M., "Torture Doesn't Works, So Why are We Still Discussing It?" Political Violence at a Glance (February 2, 2017)
- Kearns, E.M. & Young, J., "Dramatic depictions of torture increase support for it," Washington Post (December 12, 2014)
My Work Featured In:
- United Nations Secretary-General's press encounter at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, (March 22, 2019)
- The Economist, "Is right-wing terrorism on the rise in the West?," (March 18, 2019)
- The Economist, "Why do terrorists claim credit for some attacks but not others?," (February 1, 2019)
- The Guardian, "Terror Attacks by Muslims Receive 357% more press attention, study finds," (July 20, 2018)
- Think Progress, "America has a Skewed Perception of What Qualifies at Terrorism," (October 4, 2017)
- Foreign Policy, "The Rohingya Are the New Palestinians," (September 26, 2017)
- MSNBC with Ari Melber, "Study: Media Overrepresents Muslims as Terrorists," (July 2, 2017)
- Think Progress, "Non-Muslim Attackers Get a Lot Less Media Coverage than Those Who Claim Islam," (June 19, 2017)
- Cato Institute, "GAO Weights in on 'Countering Violent Extremism'," (April 13, 2017)
- Reason, "Do Muslims Commit Most U.S. Terrorist Attacks?" (March 24, 2017)
- The Independent, "News Media Do Under-Report Some Terrorist Attacks - Just Not Those Involving Islamist Extremists," (March 13, 2017)
- Pacific Standard, "Can Jack Bauer Convince You to Torture?" (January 5, 2015)
- Vox, "Torture is a culture. Releasing the Senate report is a way of fighting it," (December 11, 2014)
- The Washington Post, "The Senate CIA report says enhanced interrogation doesn't work. But Hollywood thinks it does," (December 10, 2014)
- Vox, "'24' makes people support torture, and other discoveries political scientists made this year," (September 8, 2014)